The Holy Spirit Fell on All Present

       Just then the Holy Spirit fell on everybody.  All began to pray at once.  There was no rushing wind, and there were no tongues that I know of.  But God spoke to everyone in Chinese, and it seemed the natural thing to pray in Chinese, with utterance beyond what I had ever experienced.  God spoke to me in Chinese, and I prayed in torrents of Chinese.

       At first, Dr. Sung was very much surprised, and not pleased.  He called out for us to stop: “We don't want any fanaticism here.”  I don't think he had ever been in a place where all prayed at one time, though later in his meetings it often happened.  Later, it became common, and still is practiced in Taiwan and among most evangelical Chinese groups everywhere.  But at the time we had never seen or heard it before.  The whole outburst was unplanned and spontaneous --- a moving of the Holy Spirit.  But that night in March 1931 Dr. Sung stopped us.

       He asked all to go to their rooms and pray quietly.  He said, "Now I'll pronounce the benediction." But as he prayed, the Holy Spirit fell the second time, and everybody began to pray in chorus again.  Again he stopped us: "You didn't understand; I didn't say to pray here; please go quietly to your rooms and pray there." I later asked him why he stopped us, and he told me, "I didn't want the missionaries to say 'That crazy Sung made all the students crazy.’”